Back From The Future [Stephen]

[carla]

26th April, 2009

Carla had been in the past from her future now for a good few months, ever since she and Bruce separated due to the fact they had somehow managed to lose all their children. Michelle had died, Stephen had been kidnapped or something and Emilie had gone off to the past to try and locate her brother. Carla couldn't take it, not knowing if her other two children were safe or not. She remembered her daughter coming to her in the past from the future when she was only a teenager herself, but she and Bruce had been unable to stop the unfortunate events taking place, because they were too wrapped up in their own marital problems at the time.

Since she had arrived in this time, she made good friends with Jeremy and now she didn't really want to go back to her own time, even if she did find her children, she would just live from this time onward so she wouldn't lose any of the friends she had made. She had been living in hotels since she had arrived, but if she found Stephen she would buy a home so they could all be together.

Walking down the street where her home was in the future, which in this time wouldn't be hers, she hoped the present house was still there and she would hopefully find Stephen wandering around the vicinity of the area. As she approached the house, she noticed a young boy standing outside what looked like the house she used to share with Bruce when she was a teenager, maybe it was Stephen.

She approached him with a warm smile, "Hi, are you Stephen?" she asked, he did look like her son even if he was years older than when he went missing but there was no mistaking the fact he looked like Bruce.

[stephenadams]

Stephen sat outside the house of the people that were his parents in the future. He had hoped that he would have been able to talk to Carla again ad hopefully meet Bruce, but unfortunately they were not home for some reason or another.

Now Stephen stood outside the house, waiting for them, occasionally looking over his shoulder to make sure no one was watching him, since hearing about this Company, he feared they might come after him and lock him up for what he did to all those other specials.

Stephen was about to give up and teleport out of there when a woman walked up to him, asking him if he was Stephen. Stephen's hands began to glow with radiation as he took a step back, afraid this was someone from the Company. He did a quick scan of her mind and immediately the glowing stopped and he stared at the woman in confusion. It was Carla? He had met Carla a few months ago and this woman looked a little to old to her, she looked to be in her late twenties or early thirties, Carla wasn't even twenty yet.

Stephen did a closer inspection of her mind and he understood what was going on, this was Carla from the future. She was here to find Emilie and him.

"Hey...." Stephen paused, unsure weither or not to call her mom or not.

[carla]

Carla watched as the boy seemed to stare at her, she wondered what was going through his head right at that moment. She smiled when he said 'hey' but after that she wasn't sure what to say or do. Should she grab him in a hug? Should she just tell him outright who she was and why she was there? She really didn't know.

She decided on speaking first of all, it seemed the best option to her. "I'm guessing since you haven't looked at me as if I have horns in my head, or questioned me, you recognise me? Know who I am?" she asked, as she stood there continuing to watch him and desperate to envelope him in a hug and at the same time scared to.

It might not be weird to Carla to just hug him, since she was older and remembered him from their future before he disappeared, but he was only four when he vanished, that was a young age for him to remember her. Now, she just had to be patient and wait until he spoke to see what he said.

[stephenadams]

"How did you get here?" Stephen asked, still not sure if he should call her mom or not. He could have found out how she had gotten to the present by looking through her mind but he thought that would be a rude thing to do.

Stephen wondered why she would go back to the past for him and Emilie, wouldn't they be with her in the future? Hadn't Emilie fixed everything?

He wondered if anything had happened to Emilie, maybe whoever had killed Michelle and taken him to the past had gotten to her too. Stephen was afraid that Emilie might have been hurt, or worse, it scared Stephen a lot.

Stephen nodded when Carla asked if he knew who she was, "Yeah your Carla, my mom, from the future." Stephen said, he hoped she wouldn't be upset when she found out he had read her mind a while ago, he had found out a few people really didn't like it when people looked through their mind.

[carla]

"A friend with time-space manipulation brought me to this time" Carla said, answering her son's question about how she got there, she gave him a weak smile. It was good to see her son again, she had missed him, even if he had disappeared when he was only four years old.

As she waited for him to answer her question about if he knew who she was, she began to have thoughts running through her head. What if he wasn't happy she had come to this time to find him. What if she had to tell him his mom and dad's marriage was over, what if she had to tell him, that Michelle was still dead and Emilie had never come back home again from this time. She sure hoped he didn't have telepathy just now, or he would know exactly everything which had been happening.

She smiled when he answered her, "Yeah that's right, I am from the future, I came here to find you and Emilie" Carla said as she got closer to him, "Is it a bit off to expect a hug from my son?" she asked him with a weak smile, hoping he would say no, because she just wanted to wrap her arms around him and hold him close.

[stephenadams]

Stephen nodded when his mother told him that someone had sent her back in time so she could get him and Emilie, he was surprised he hadn't thought of that, seeing as he was in this time line because he had mimicked time traveling temporarily.

Stephen was still confused on why his mother had gone in time to get him and Emilie, hadn't they been able to fix the future, or had the failed? Stephen would have thought that he would have helped save him and his sister in the future, which led him to suspecting he was either doing something he had thought was more important at the time or he was dead.

"Why do you need me and Emilie from this time line? Are we not in yours or something?" Stephen asked, vocalizing his concern.

Stephen was still going over all the possible reasons his mother would travel back in time and get him when Carla asked if he would give her a hug,

"Sure." he said leaning forward to give his mom a hug.

[carla]

Carla sighed when Stephen asked why she was there for him and his sister. She knew it would be awkward having to tell him what had happened. That she and Bruce got themselves so involved in their own problems, they split up without doing what needed doing to keep their children safe.

"You should be in my time line but you aren't. What Emilie tried to do, it didn't work" Carla said softly and sadly and then looked down at her feet for a few seconds before looking back up into her son's face lovingly. She wouldn't be able to hold it back, she'd have to tell him. Taking a deep sigh, she went into the explanation.

"Your father and I, we sort of got into some trouble in our marriage, and we were so busy trying to sort our own lives out we forgot about what Emilie told us and it didn't save the future, you were still missing, Michelle still died, and Emilie, well she's never come back from this time line" Carla said slowly and sadly, she could only hope that Emilie was still here.

Carla broke into a radiant smile however, when Stephen said that she could get a hug and he came forward, she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, but not so he wouldn't be able to breathe. "It's so good to see you again, I've missed you so much" Carla said, as she held him at arm's length.

"Now, I was just wondering if you'd be happy for me to stay in this time line with you and we can try and find your sister? And just continue our lives from this point on? I've made a few friends since I've come here and well I don't really want to leave them and go back to my future" Carla explained, hoping Stephen wouldn't mind his future mother staying in this time line with him.

[stephenadams]

Stephen frowned when Carla said that Emilie's plan had failed, that everything had still happened to him and his siblings. Michelle was killed, he was sent back in time, and Emilie tried to fix everything.

Stephen became even more upset when he found out that his parents had had marriage issues in the future, it seems the more time that past the more things seemed to screw up.

Stephen wrapped his arms around his mother as she gave him a hug, happy that atleast he had his mother, that he wasn't on his own anymore.

Stephen smiled when his mom asked if he would be happy with her staying in the present with him, she said she had a few friends in this time line she didn't want to leave and that she wanted to look for Emilie.

"Do you have a place to stay, I've been living in a tent for the past two months due to some...... complications." Stephen said, he didn't want to tell his mother about the hunger he had, the people he had killed, all of the horrible stuff that had happened in the past few months.

[carla]

Carla knew telling her son Stephen everything which had happened, or at least not being able to save everything which happened would be difficult for him to take in. She hadn't wanted to tell him but she knew she had to. The worst part was having to hell him she and Bruce had split and were no longer together. She was for now still an Adams, she hadn't bothered to change her name back to her maiden name of Norton for the simple reason she hadn't had contact with her brother for a very long time and she wanted to break the connection with being a part of that family.

She was glad of the hug she got from her son, having his arms wrapped around her felt good, even if the last time she saw him he was only four and now he was a teenager. He hadn't changed much over the years, just a little older looking and obviously taller.

"My friend Jeremy found me an apartment, it's big enough for you, Emilie and I, but it's in New York" Carla replied with a smile, having Stephen ask if she had somewhere to stay made it feel like he was happy to have his mom stay with him in this time line. "And I certainly can't have you living in a tent, what complications?" Carla had to ask, she was now feeling worried for her son.

[stephenadams]

Stephen listened as mom told him she had a place to stay and that it was in New York. He didn't really care much about location, he didn't have any friends to speak of and what was distance anyway when you could teleport?

Stephen wished that he hadn't said anything about why he lived in a tent, but he had figured she would have asked anyway, Stephen sighed, he wondered how his mom would react to this.

"A couple of months ago I painted a plane crash and I tried to stop it. I saw a woman being dragged out of the bathroom by some woman and I tried to save her, but it turned out she wasn't a damsel in distress. She knocked me out and..... cut my head open. I healed but I think she did something to me. Ever since I've had this craving to understand things, including powers. It also made me more intelligent and I quickly found out how to understand an ability........ I've killed three people and attempted to kill a few others," Stephen admitted, he started to shake as he remembered the faces of the people as he fought them or murdered them.

"I tried to get away from people, so that I wouldn't hurt them, that's why I live in a tent, but one of the powers I gained gives me visions of the future and sometimes I see someone with a powerful ability and the hunger takes over and I can't control myself." Stephen's eyes began to water, he felt so helpless, like there was no way to stop this strange hunger he had, he wished he would wake up and his life would just go back to normal, no powers, no being sent back in time at the age of four, he just wanted to be a normal kid.

[carla]

Carla decided to not interrupt her son while he was telling her his reason for living in a tent. In honesty she couldn't quite believe what she was hearing. She had never expected her son to have gone down a road of evil and killing people, however from the way he explained it, she felt like she could understand, or at least try to understand. When she was certain he had finished speaking, she wasn't sure what to say at first.

She just sort of stood there staring at him. Then realising that he was still her son, she pulled him into her arms again, she didn't care if he felt he was to old for hugs, he was getting one again whether he liked it or not. "Oh Stephen" she said as she soothed his back with her hand.

"I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you, I might have been able to help you through so much of this" she said in hopefully a calming voice. One thing was for sure, she wasn't about to give up on her son. She had heard of this hunger which went with an ability called Intuitive Aptitude and it could be be curbed with determination and sometimes in severe cases medication.

"You can learn to control it and if you feel you're struggling alone, there is medication out there I'm certain of it, which can also help you to control it, but no matter what Stephen you're my son, and nothing is ever going to change that" she said, keeping him in her arms. She couldn't believe her baby had gone through so much it was so sad.

[stephenadams]

Stephen was afraid that Carla was going to bolt after finding out he had killed people with powers before, or at least be afraid that he might kill her, but his fear disapeared when she hugged him again.

He was a little embarased being hugged in public but it was nice to know she wasn't freaked out enough to just leave. In fact she seemed to blame herself a bit for no being there.

"I've been able to control myself for the most part, it's just around powers I can't immedietly understand or when I'm angry with another special. Then I just kinda lose it and...... well you know the rest." Stephen said, "There's medication for people with this hunger? What is there some underground drug store for people with abilities?"

[carla]

Carla listened with a heavy heart as he went on about how he reacted toward other specials and around powers. He must have had such a difficult time, it was really pulling at Carla's heart strings. She gently pulled away from the hug, not because she wanted to, but in case her son was getting embarrassed about being publicly hugged by his mom.

"I do understand what has been happening, it must have been such a really bad time for you, it sounds to me very similar to what Sylar does. I really wouldn't want you to turn out like that if I could help it." Carla said with big brown sad eyes.

Of course when Stephen asked her about the medication, Carla nodded her head. She was sure she had heard it mentioned some time, the woman Angela Petrelli had medication, she had given it to Sylar once, she was sure of it.

"I am pretty certain Angela Petrelli has medication for it, in the form of an injection, I'm not sure if it's permanent or if you have to inject every so often, but it's worth a try, don't you think?" Carla asked him still looking at him with very sad eyes. Carla was determined to make life as easy as possible for her son if she could.

[stephenadams]

Stephen just stood there as his mother let go of him, hoping that she wasn't to afraid. He didn't want to have her worried about him killing her, he already had her power and understood it well enough for his hunger to not be interested in it.

Stephen sighed when Carla compared his hunger to Sylar's, it seemed that him and whoever that guy was were two peas in a pod, he kept getting compared to the strangely named psycho killer.

"Angela Petrelli? Is she related to Peter Petrelli?" Stephen asked, remembering hearing about a Peter Petrelli once during his time at the high school for people with powers like him, he guessed the Petrelli's were pretty big in the strange world he now lived in," I'll take the injection, even if it isn't permanent, heck I'll take it even if it takes away all of my other powers as well."

Stephen liked having all of his other powers, the ability to move things with nothing more then a thought, to teleport anywhere he wanted, to be able to find out someone secrets by looking into their mind, to be able to see the future in his dreams, to be able to destroy anything that stood in his way. all of those powers made him feel better then normal people, made him feel like he was finally on top, but the hunger had changed that, and he would get rid of it no matter what the cost was.

[carla]

Carla watched Stephen closely after she gently pulled out of the hug, she had done it so her son wouldn't feel embarrassed about being publicly hugged by his mom, but the look on his face worried her slightly. Not that she could read his mind, but she was his mother, if she couldn't tell what was bothering him, it was a bad day. "I'm not scared of you sweetheart, just thought you know, wanted some space?" she said, as she held her arms out in a teasing fashion showing space between herself and Stephen. She did laugh after it though, just a gentle laugh.

"Angela is Peter Petrelli's mother, Stephen, they're quite well known, Angela runs the Company known as Primatech, they usually take in the most dangerous villains to help keep the streets safe, but I know she has this cure, she gave it to Sylar once" Carla explained when he asked about the connection between Angela and Peter.

She was glad when he said he would take the injection even if it wasn't permanent. Hopefully it would be, Carla just wanted her son to be normal. "It shouldn't take away the powers you already have, it will just stop you from craving and the need to kill to get more powers." Carla knew exactly where to find Angela, and she would find her, and get the injection and help her son.